Roles and Responsibilities
- Counsel the TerraPay product and business teams on a range of issues including payments and financial regulatory frameworks, market expansion, fraud/consumer protection, disputes (pre-litigation), data protection and other legal matters.
- Structure, draft and negotiate key infrastructure deals with our financial partners.
- Drafting and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures (occasionally between corporates in different jurisdictions)
- Actively collaborate with a wide variety of teams at TerraPay, including product, engineering, partnerships, compliance, and marketing, on a range of issues related to market expansion, regulatory compliance, product development and commercialization.
- Implementing the legal processes required to streamline corporate procedures.
- Work with all department heads to implement a cohesive legal/commercial strategy.
- Work closely with colleagues across TerraPay’s global legal team to support TerraPay’s regulatory structure, strategic financial partnerships, and other legal matters.
- Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review, and launch of products in new markets.
- Manage outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions to ensure timely and knowledgeable support of critical matters.
- Stay up-to-date with the support of TerraPay’s legal subject matter experts on international laws and regulations dealing with privacy, data security, consumer protection, financial services, and marketing.
- Participate as a proactive business partner to senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.
- Collecting information and evidence for decision making of management
- Handling all IP matters (including to applying/ renewing trademark registrations on an ongoing basis).
- Any other assigned duties.
Skills Required
- A law degree
- A minimum of 3-4 years combined relevant experience in a top law firm, government agency, and/or in-house legal team, preferably working on the legal and regulatory matters in the fintech space.
- A passion for technology and ability to understand complex business models and product use cases quickly.
- Strong communication (both written and verbal).
- Experience working on cross-border matters and working across different cultures.
- Sound knowledge of data privacy laws in EEA, APAC & India
- Excellent project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to work under tight deadlines.
- Excellent judgment, ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving regulatory spaces, and provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice.
- High degree of professional ethics and integrity
- A solid team player and able to work independently
Job description provided by TerraPay.
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